tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125635193860950435.post8110479158310260436..comments2015-05-06T13:45:31.500-07:00Comments on Life at Full Tilt: BADD 2015: Vesuvius on WheelsFull Tilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11805207016263491865noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125635193860950435.post-53480474493703422142015-05-06T13:45:31.500-07:002015-05-06T13:45:31.500-07:00Thank you for leaving such a nice comment regardin...Thank you for leaving such a nice comment regarding Elizabeth, Goldfish. I agree with your points about the doctors and I am sorry for what you went through. You seem happier and calmer now than you were when I began writing here and I&#39;m glad for you if that is true.Full Tilthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11805207016263491865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125635193860950435.post-45535689182216534272015-05-06T05:48:07.413-07:002015-05-06T05:48:07.413-07:00Thanks for this - sorry it&#39;s taken me so long ...Thanks for this - sorry it&#39;s taken me so long to comment. Elizabeth was such an amazing woman and her absence is still very sorely felt. I&#39;m really glad someone wrote about her today.<br /><br />Almost everyone I know who became a wheelchair-user as an adult - unless they had a spinal cord injury or something similarly dramatic where they were on their feet one week and couldn&#39;t walk the next - regrets waiting so long. I was daft enough to wait for a full year *twice* (the first time, after I began to use a wheelchair, my health improved so I didn&#39;t need it any more. You&#39;d think that when things got worse again, I would simply hop back in the chair, but no. I was housebound for another year).<br /><br />Part of the problem lies with doctors. Obviously, walking has health benefits, but they don&#39;t supersede everything else - if a person is in constant pain, if they can&#39;t leave their house or if they&#39;re vulnerable to falling, stress or injury may well do them more harm than sitting down. But there&#39;s a great prejudice against wheelchairs. As someone with a complex chronic illness with many troubling symptoms, doctors are inclined to focus on my walking when for me, it is maybe forth or fifth on my list of health priorities. The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.com